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Posted by randyo on Sat May 7 21:17:34 2016, in response to Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by Renee gil on Fri May 6 21:11:46 2016. At the risk of responding to a necropost, It seems from reading an old PSC report on the dual contracts that although the original name of the station was to have been Gold St, it was decided that since Myrtle Av was a better known thoroughfare, that the station should be called Myrtle Ave and although I have no hard evidence, I believe that the station name and the tiles were changed to Myrtle before the station was actually opened. As for the lack of a transfer to the Myrtle El, among the plans for the reconstruction of the Bkln els was a plan to truncate Myrtle at Flatbush Extension and build a transfer from a new terminal station on the el to the Myrtle Ave station on the 4th Ave subway last it was known then (and still is). All the photos of the model board I have ever seen show it designated as “Myrtle Ave Interlocking” even though BMT operating personnel have always referred to it as Gold St. Even though the new tower at Dekalb shows it as Myrtle Av, the operating personnel still refer to the interlocking as Gold St and timetables that show it in the header also show it as Gold St. |
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